Our first impressions of Formula E
As Formula E celebrates the fifth anniversary of its first race, we delve into the Autosport archive to revisit our writers' first impressions of its maiden events back in 2014
It's five years since the first ever Formula E race took place in Beijing, and over the coming weeks we'll be celebrating the series' history so far with a look at its greatest - and most unlikely - drivers, best races and more, as well as looking to its future as Mercedes and Porsche arrive on the grid.
To start off, we're republishing two articles from 2014 in which our journalists shared their initial impressions of FE as it made its first steps into the limelight amid what was then widespread scepticism from elsewhere in motorsport.
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